tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2442709270787168376.post5695934145319095100..comments2023-12-24T08:02:36.605-05:00Comments on Betsy Transatlantically: National Health What?Betsy Transatlanticallyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04953626122327472245noreply@blogger.comBlogger8125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2442709270787168376.post-57911823289420234482011-03-26T16:35:04.958-04:002011-03-26T16:35:04.958-04:00Wow...that is just...wow.Wow...that is just...wow.Sarah Bhttp://www.texpatsabroad.comnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2442709270787168376.post-76121417740256562932010-12-09T17:47:34.179-05:002010-12-09T17:47:34.179-05:00Jenny. Yes. That is exactly what it is like. If...Jenny. Yes. That is exactly what it is like. If only McDreamy would come to my rescue...<br /><br />But also, YES. We're going to write a letter to the oral surgeon saying, "This happened, what do you suggest we do about it?" And hopefully they'll just give us lots of money so that we don't sue.Betsy Transatlanticallyhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/04953626122327472245noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2442709270787168376.post-30362268915623871032010-12-09T17:41:50.224-05:002010-12-09T17:41:50.224-05:002 things:
1. this is like that episode of Grey...2 things:<br /><br />1. this is like that episode of Grey's where Burke leaves the towel in that woman's abdomen. except this is real life, which leads me to point 2...<br />2. i hope you are effing SUING YOUR ORIGINAL ORAL SURGEON. or at the very least a strongly worded letterAnonymoushttps://www.blogger.com/profile/15504455512155661748noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2442709270787168376.post-81170171230426467232010-12-05T08:09:20.594-05:002010-12-05T08:09:20.594-05:00Thanks for all the sympathy, guys! It looks like ...Thanks for all the sympathy, guys! It looks like I will be going private... rargh.Betsy Transatlanticallyhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/04953626122327472245noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2442709270787168376.post-6974291947595589972010-12-03T15:06:44.943-05:002010-12-03T15:06:44.943-05:00Poor thing!! Looks awful. If you went to the sam...Poor thing!! Looks awful. If you went to the same out-of-hours centre in Tooting as I did, I feel for you even more.This Mid 30s Lifehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/12912056822016083189noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2442709270787168376.post-34532383893091032262010-12-03T01:24:01.452-05:002010-12-03T01:24:01.452-05:00Betsy, more oversharing follows here as this is a ...Betsy, more oversharing follows here as this is a hot-button topic for me!<br /><br />You were bound to come up against such things one day: it's inevitable. The NHS is constrained by severe limitations, in large part because undiscriminating types have overburdened the system. And also the National Health was never designed to cover 'cosmetic' interventions which have only been made possible by 'errors of progress': to wit, leaving a piece of drill behind where a wisdom tooth once was.<br /><br />Unfortunately, broadly defined, your painful problem is considered by a lot of NHS old-timers to be borderline cosmetic. Hence the comfortable eighteen weeks. Believe it!<br /><br />Your blogger colleague the lovely Michelloui is sorely mistaken when she calls the NHS 'free'. Firstly, nothing in life is free: the national health contributions which come out of your and everyone's else's salary are (quite obviously) keeping the NHS alive. Some might argue that they're propping its rickety self up. Furthermore, the NHS is brilliant and fee-free when it comes to life-threatening emergencies (my partner Adam's kidney stones of several years back). But nothing, say, mental health-ish – therapists etc, which I required – is available unless you put your name on a yearlong waitlist, and UCL's counseling centre can be useless and even hostile. So anyone getting therapy in the UK is almost guaranteed paying out of pocket.<br /><br />I'll make only one more point about the NHS for now (women in childbirth emergencies and poorly-trained 'imported' GPs are my other, related bugbears): its innate conservatism, which is understandable. If you need plastic surgery on a formerly infected finger and wonky fingernail, as I did, you will by definition pay for it privately, and the options you are offered will be much more conservative. Here in New York I have had the intervention at a more sophisticated level: tissue has been removed from the inflamed finger and the nail has been saved, not ablated. In Norfolk I would have paid 3500 quid (roughly the same as the 'charity' amount I was charged in New York) for a great deal less work. And NHS dentists are famed for the poor quality of their basic work, proving that unfortunately, these days you get what you pay for on the various reasonably-priced 'bands' of treatment.<br /><br />Once final point: notoriously, the NHS's wealth is unequally distributed, as you have surely read: lousy GPs in one county or corner of a county, good ones elsewhere. Free rounds of IVF before the age of forty in one county, and an interminable waitlist for the same in another. I'll stop there for now.<br /><br />But all that is germane – the very nature of modern, overtaxed nationalised health care!<br /><br />So to call your predicament 'insane', with apologies to your friend Adam, is a gross oversimplification.<br /><br />Apologies for being so impassioned, but experience is as experience does.<br /><br />RRHHRebecca Rose Hirschfieldhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/17089700341509897582noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2442709270787168376.post-18958969916655132342010-12-02T19:53:23.303-05:002010-12-02T19:53:23.303-05:00Insane (although over-sharing is defining our gene...Insane (although over-sharing is defining our generation and I love it!)Adamhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/05525125812284360434noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2442709270787168376.post-45841397728214755502010-12-02T17:44:05.519-05:002010-12-02T17:44:05.519-05:00And this is the side of the NHS that people don...And this is the side of the NHS that people don't often share! We found this out a few times as well and ended up going private as well.<br /><br />Oh, and ouch, I am so sorry!andreahttps://www.blogger.com/profile/18236354461635531760noreply@blogger.com